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- newspapers. So He got the Tulsa Tribune to pay the same amount the Arkansas Gazette did. Then Liz, in the meantime, had started a little news bureau of her own, and she represented the Beaumont Journal. We later were to represent the Enterprise as well
- newspapers, had their best on the beat: Murrey Marder, Chal [Chalmers] Roberts of the Washington Post; Ned [E. W.] Kenworthy, Bill Jorden, Max Frankel of the New York Times; Pete Lisagor of the Chicago Daily News; John Cauley of the Kansas City Star; Paul
- choice and phrasing; the new mission for the marines in 1965; government's right to withhold information; the press' ability to get the information it seeks; how McCloskey obtained information; McCloskey's "thought, word and deed" message on 1967 war
- newspapers, had their best on the beat: Murrey Marder, Chal [Chalmers] Roberts of the Washington Post; Ned [E. W.] Kenworthy, Bill Jorden, Max Frankel of the New York Times; Pete Lisagor of the Chicago Daily News; John Cauley of the Kansas City Star; Paul
- McCloskey’s work in foreign service and as State Department spokesman; reporters; Vietnam; credibility gap; coordinating briefings with the White House and the Pentagon; new mission of the marines in 1965; withholding information from the press
- recall it, a week or ten days, LBJ found out that Kilduff was going up to New York for the weekend, I think it was. This is typical LBJ. He told Reedy he wanted him to take the weekend off, he was tired and needed a rest. He knew that that was going
- was then with the New York Herald Tribune. Since then they've both become commentators on NBC. Kiker was always the nemesis of the President. It was my feeling that if LBJ had run for re-election that eventually Doug Kiker would become his press secretary
- and President Kennedy; Presidential scholar ceremony invitee list; Laitin losing his code name; LBJ not wanting people to know who he was taking to Camp David; how the press manipulate the people who release the news; LBJ’s relationship with the press; the focus
Oral history transcript, Stewart J.O. Alsop, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- , and no press ever really much likes the president. Even Jack Kennedy wasn't an entire exception. You remember the phrase "managed news" arose under the Kennedy Administration. And you remember it was Jack Kennedy who cancelled the New York Herald Tribune
- INTERVI EWEE: THOMAS G. HICKER INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Wickerls office, Washington Bureau, New York Times Tape 1 of 1 F: First of all, I know you came out of Hamlet, North Carolina, which I think is a very happy place to have been born
Oral history transcript, Thomas Francis "Mike" Gorman, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1985, by Clarence Lasby
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- an associate editor of the college newspaper, but I liked to write and that sort of thing. And then there was an opening at the New York Herald Tribune. A colleague of mine had gotten on the New York Herald Tribune and said, "Well, you can come on here, and we
- Truman Democrat and I am an Orval Faubus Democrat." F: And never the twain shall meet! H: That experience~ of course, is beside the point, except that it brings us together in this matter of geography. F: I think New York City is beginning to get
- it. F: Didn't have anything to move with. H: Didn't have anything to move with. Purely on a political side I think that the majority of people supported him in my own state. F: New York? H: We were concerned politically. We had every indication
- campaigning in the early primaries against Kennedy. And so I pretty much stayed out of that one. I went to the convention as a correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune and did some writing. I did have the distinction of being the first reporter to carry
- -- 23 for Hiroshima. Mike Cowles understood that. In fact, I did one thing which for a long time preyed on my mind; I was actually filled with guilt although I had been right to do it. Helen Reid, owner of the New York Herald Tribune, once presided over
Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 3 (III), 2/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- , New York Herald Tribune-- (Interruption) G: Where are we? M: On the book-- G: Well, at any rate-- M: This was cancelled then? G: At any rate I heard that the thing was going to be cancelled, got notice that it was going
- , to cover the legislature and continued on covering the Governor's Office. My bureau chief, who was Bill Carter--he was from New York--did not know much about Texas politics. He had been sent down to take over and spruce up the bureau and so he let me write
- ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 5 August 1969 F: This is an interview with Mr. Laurance Rockefeller and Mr. Henry Diamond in Mr. Rockefeller's office in New York on August 5, 1969; the interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. Mr. Rockefeller, very briefly tell us how
- daily? N: Not daily, 0:: Cape Cod at the time of the second primary? but I telephoned. I bought the New York Times. Boston pa?ers didn't report anything. The The New York Times would have very confusing information, and I remember I called
- that no reporter, when I got down here, really qualified, with very few exceptions--such as Marshall Peck of the Herald-Tribune in New York City, Paul Weeks in Los Angeles--both of whom by the way later joined the War on Poverty--there were no qualified poverty
- INTERVIE~~EE : HARRY PROVENCE INTERVIEWER: DAVID PLACE: His office at the Waco Tribune Herald r4ccor~B Tape 1 of 1 M: First of all, we'll get some background information. I'd like to know where you were born and when and where you got your
- of the service and started as a news correspondent here at the National Press Building. That was June 12, 1944. F: That was right at D-Day in Normandy, wasn't it? M: That's right, that's right. She was nine days old when I started working here in the Press
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 11 (XI), 12/20/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
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- mixed up on dates at this point, but- G: The letter was 1957. R: It was 1957? The letter itself was actually written by Jim Rowe, but the concepts were Johnson's. I think that the letter leaked out to the [New York] Herald Tribune somehow. We
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 10 (X), 10/14/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
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- inspiration for that letter. worth checking out. I'm not sure of that, but it's If you find the letter, I think the letter first appeared in the New York Herald Tribune. G: Was Johnson upset about the leak of it? R: Not really. He said that he
Oral history transcript, John Henry Faulk, interview 1 (I), 12/15/1989, by Michael L. Gillette
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- he needs your input and he needs your connections here in New York. You've got the best connections in the world. You're well acquainted at the New York Times, well acquainted at the Herald Tribune; have good friends there.” See, I had never had had
- The President doesn't like your work, so for God sakes, be careful." I could, from time to time, sense a nervousness when Maggie Higgins was out there. She came out from the [New York Herald] Tribune and did a series of bizarre stories. She was only
- a remarkable supposed to be talking about Vietnam here . We are Anyway, I had known him in the war together, Korea, and he had--Maggie Higgins and I were covering Tribune , and Joe's and Higgins was working for the [New York ] Herald attached himself
- , 1987 INTERVIEWEE: FRANK STANTON INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Dr. Stanton's office, New York City Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 G: You visited the President after his heart attack in 1955. S: Oh, yes. G: Can you describe your visit
- , the "We shall overcome" speech? D: I remember the words, "I now have the power to do something about it. I aim to use it." I remember that line and I remember the closing line, "We shall overcome." I think it was Douglas Kiker of the New York Herald
- LBJ's visit to New Orleans with Louisiana Governor John McKeithen; LBJ's relationships with Mexicans; White House press conferences and how they changed in the television era; LBJ's use of television; LBJ's response to civil rights-related violence
- , yes. Yes, there was Alex Hurd~ acts~ and this-- the chancellor of Vanderbilt, [he] was the chairman; Walter Thayer, then president of the New York Herald Tribune, one of the stalwarts of the Republican hierarchy on the Eastern Seaboard
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
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- INTERVIEWEE: RICHARD H. NELSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE· PLACE: Mr. Nelson's office, New York City Tape 1 of 3 G: Let's start with your association with the Peace Corps. How did you get involved with that? N: I had met Bill Moyers and Sarge
- and Kennedy’s staff; Diem’s assassination; Vietnam; trips to New York and Benelux region; LBJ as president; transition after assassination of JFK; the 1964 campaign; civil rights meeting with black leaders; LBJ’s ethics and relationship with staff; Walter
- was a correspondent for the New York Times. himself [was] a Democrat. mugwump. He had a Bill As for myself, I have always been a He filled that paper with the Democratic story from start· to finish, all of which or most of which he got from Lyndon or from LBJ
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette
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- -relations end of the New York Herald Tribune in those days, and the New York Times, Newsweek, and other magazines and newspapers. 2 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
- to that column; Shriver’s opinion of LBJ keeping Kennedy’s cabinet members; Shriver’s ideas for new vice presidential duties; Shriver’s conflicts with Secretary of Labor Wirtz; the Neighborhood Youth Corps; Shriver’s determination to solve problems without
- of the staff. I never shall forget the neutrality session. Even though I lived at the Dodge and worked at what was then called the New House Office Building--I believe it's now the Longworth Building--and I walked right by that Capitol twice a day at least, we
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 23 (XXIII), 9/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
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- what Lyndon had done for the Naval Air Training Base in Corpus Christi. About that time it looked like a couple new ordnance depots were going to move to Houston. In fact, other states were being tapped, somewhat, for things that were moving to Texas
- . And then lots of other little places like the Iron Gate and the Parrot. So Dorris and Diane and I got on the train and went up to New York, and saw some plays and went to some museums. Lyndon, I think he went with us for about twenty-four hours, but not for long
- visit to Washington, D.C. and Mrs. Johnson's trip with them to New York City; F Street Club; Joseph Davies' home, Tregaron; visits to Senator Harry Byrd's home; "Byrd houses" along the Appalachian Trail; socializing with the Texas delegation; Tony Buford
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz
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- stood in all of those doors that read Look Magazine and New York Herald Tribune and a lot of publications that I was too intimidated to even go in. bureau for twenty-six dailies in Michigan. She had a news For twenty-five dollars a week I could
- a syndicated colwmi.st. r thought I would just .begin by introducing you and then at the end of that, you can add whatever you'd like to it. You were born in 1924 in New York City. In 1947 you received a B.A. I from U.C.L.A. and in 1948 received a Master
- others and I think everyone of us was from [the South]. I was from Alabama, Tom Wicker was from North Carolina, The New York Times, Doug Kiker from the Herald Tribune was a Georgian, and there were several others. have made this charge? So how could he
Oral history transcript, William M. Capron, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
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- it? C: It's referenced in here someplace. I know perfectly well; I'm just terrible on names. Well, then there was Homer Bigart [who] did a series in the [New York] Herald Tribune on poverty in Appalachia, particularly in eastern Kentucky and West
- involvement in CAPs of Walter Heller, Kermit Gordon, Dave Hackett, Dick Boone, Paul Ylvisaker and Mitchell Sviridoff; a December 1963 cabinet meeting regarding CAPs; the argument over whether to develop a new agency for CAPs; Capron's 1963 view of how a new
Oral history transcript, John Chancellor, interview 1 (I), 4/25/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- , and I guess we had lunch. And I was very stubborn about this, and I called NBC in New York and found that the man who was the president of NBC at the time, named Robert Kintner, who later went to work for the President as the secretary of the cabinet
- on White House influence on news coverage, LBJ’s response to critical press coverage, preferential treatment to certain newsmen, LBJ’s decision on to run, 1968 convention, LBJ’s way of helping departing staff members, Vietnam, the effect of daily
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 19 (XIX), 2/6-7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
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- was attorney general of Texas then. Oh, Bill Douglas and Fred Vinson were often there. Judge Marvin Jones and Bob Hannegan and Ed Clark and dear Albert Jackson from the Dallas Times Herald, and Bill Kittrell, who could tell some of the best stories of anybody I
- death; Harry Truman receiving the news of FDR's death at Sam Rayburn's "board of education;" LBJ's relationship with FDR; Milo and Tharon Perkins; President Truman's friends; LBJ's level of conservatism, especially following FDR's death; KTBC sending
- : Durbrow, yes. L: Yes. G: Did you know about that? L: Well, yes, we had a fair amount of that kind of difficulty. something new. Here was Here was something new, ambassadors having as a part of their activities a military organization and so forth